Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. Route 66 pairs this reading content with teaching tools and learning exercises, effectively empowering any literate person to become an early reading instructor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. Another topic that I’ve been tracking for a few years is information overload, with an emphasis on information coping skills. Brilliant Mistakes by Paul H.J. Schoemaker.

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Skills Network Social Media Technique 106

Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

And yet data access and the skills required to understand the data are, in many organizations, restricted to business intelligence teams and IT specialists. Organizations can also instill a data culture by promoting data literacy—because in order for employees to participate in a data culture, they first need to speak the language of data.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

As a result, many prioritized and elevated the focus on data skills to nurture and strengthen their organizational behaviors, processes, and mindsets to become data-leading instead of data-lagging. . Learn the data skills that are in demand . Employers are looking for data skills; in fact they’re hungry for them.

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Help Literacy Skills Roles 102

Tableau

OCTOBER 23, 2021

As a result, many prioritized and elevated the focus on data skills to nurture and strengthen their organizational behaviors, processes, and mindsets to become data-leading instead of data-lagging. . Learn the data skills that are in demand . Employers are looking for data skills; in fact they’re hungry for them.

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Help Literacy Skills Roles 98

Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

Data communities—networks of engaged data users—create an environment where people can come together to immerse themselves in the language of data, encouraging data literacy and fueling excitement around data and analytics.The most effective data communities provide access to data and support its use with training sessions and technical assistance.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. Data literacy is the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data—and it’s fundamental to organizations’ success with analytics for data-driven decision-making. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing?

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Reading financial statements, analyzing data, reviewing the Form 990 before it’s filed, approving policies related to conflicts of interest, tapping into reserves, and conducting internal audits might not light your fire.

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Build Nonprofit Literacy Roles 109

Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

The attributes of a leading Data Culture range from visible characteristics like training methods, tools available and used, and business processes to subtle, hard-to-quantify characteristics such as empathy, identity, and confidence in data skills. This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

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Trend Research Data Companies 118

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

No matter where you are, there''s still a week left for you to hone your social media skills during Social Media September. Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy ''s upcoming webinar, Bringing Entrepreneurial Skills into Grantmaking Practices , will explore ways in which you can employ the skills and practices used by social entrepreneurs.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Support employees in growing their analytics skills. Data literacy is the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data—and it’s fundamental to organizations’ success with analytics for data-driven decision-making. How does that baseline change by team, skill level, or type of data that people are accessing?

Analytics 98

Analytics Culture Roles Community 98

Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My predecessor, Stephanie Richardson, summed it up nicely : “When we think of Data Culture, it really is about bringing people along for that transformation, and not only enabling them with the right technology, but also with the skills, the support, the community, the learning—all of those things that go with trying to change someone’s behavior.”.

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Community Data Culture Skills 114

Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

This is one we use a ton internally and don’t question nearly enough. When either is misappropriated or used casually to refer to someone who is skilled at any random thing, their importance and significance are greatly diminished. When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.”

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Literacy Alternative Language Culture 126

Tableau

MARCH 21, 2022

These capabilities give analysts and skilled business domain experts the ability to design and leverage their own AI applications. However, it’s important to note that while these solutions can help address the skills gap between analysts and data scientists, it’s not a replacement for the latter.

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Tableau

MARCH 21, 2022

These capabilities give analysts and skilled business domain experts the ability to design and leverage their own AI applications. However, it’s important to note that while these solutions can help address the skills gap between analysts and data scientists, it’s not a replacement for the latter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2015

Benetech is hiring new Vice Presidents for our Global Literacy and Human Rights programs. You are someone who dreams about using your management and leadership skills and love of technology for social impact, exceeding the bounds of what a regular for-profit business can do.

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Tableau

JULY 23, 2021

The attributes of a leading Data Culture range from visible characteristics like training methods, tools available and used, and business processes to subtle, hard-to-quantify characteristics such as empathy, identity, and confidence in data skills. This led them to re-evaluate their approach to decision-making, starting with data skills.

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Trend Research Data Companies 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

WFP USA shared their blog post of Rani’s story on Facebook for Literacy Day on September 8. It goes a long way in helping readers get to know Rani and consider donating to help kids like her. For the feature image, they used a photo of Rani looking directly at the camera. This eye-catching photo invited viewers to click to take a closer look.

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Channel Story Sierra Leone Digital 252

Tableau

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

My predecessor, Stephanie Richardson, summed it up nicely : “When we think of Data Culture, it really is about bringing people along for that transformation, and not only enabling them with the right technology, but also with the skills, the support, the community, the learning—all of those things that go with trying to change someone’s behavior.”.

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Community Data Culture Skills 98

Tableau

MARCH 23, 2022

When businesses build or enhance a Data Culture through technology investments, they support data skills and develop infrastructure to enable wide-scale decision making with data, improving behaviors and beliefs across the organization. On average, 73.5% in data-aware organizations. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It wasn’t until 1993, when a reconstruction of these events by American journalist Mark Danner first appeared in The New Yorker , that the full story of the El Mozote massacre was brought to light and sent shock waves through the international community. Dave suggested we rename our idea Martus, the Greek word for “witness.”

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . You participate in a community when you post a question to your organization’s internal discussion forum—whenever you take an action to be in the loop.” .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. The Corte Madera School now uses Bookshare.org books in a range of classes for disabled students.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. Data skills educators, dig into the analytics with our Trends in Higher Education dashboard and explore top trends by country throughout the student lifecycle. . Emphasize career opportunities to attract students.

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Education Trend Report Netherlands 105

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Half of those customers are non-technology companies like banks, consulting firms and small businesses that want to train employees in data literacy and tech-specific programing. The re-skilling company similarly has an enterprise and consumer product, but is seeing more monetary gains in the former.

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Hunger Literacy Classes Student 102

Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As organizations strive to become more data-driven, they will need everyone to have the right data skills and the right analytics technology to help them on their journey. It will help us close the data literacy gap, reimagine an entirely new analytics experience, and set people up for success in this digital-first world.

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Accessibility Gartner Data Analytics 111

Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Here are our top five takeaways for higher education institutions across disciplines, including data literacy. Data skills educators, dig into the analytics with our Trends in Higher Education dashboard and explore top trends by country throughout the student lifecycle. Emphasize career opportunities to attract students.

Education 98

Education Trend Report Netherlands 98

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Our institute is designed to advance the skills and knowledge of nonprofit professionals, volunteers, board members, and community leaders. Nonprofit Management. Denver Nonprofit Institute.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Launching publicly for the first time today, Modal is a cohort-based learning platform that companies can use to help their existing employees learn new skills or shift disciplines. The startup’s first product will focus on increasing data literacy within startups. Per Shimkus, he and Yang were able to raise $6.8

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Build Classes Education Literacy 84

TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

That’s what Decagon hopes for by training and connecting engineers to work remotely with both local and international companies. So the issue really is supply. If supply is fixed , everyone is happy. Based on the excellent performance of the current portfolio, it made sense to scale our support to Decagon.”.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . You participate in a community when you post a question to your organization’s internal discussion forum—whenever you take an action to be in the loop.” .

Data 52

Data Community Business Literacy 52

Tableau

JULY 31, 2023

Data communities—networks of engaged data users—create an environment where people can come together to immerse themselves in the language of data, encouraging data literacy and fueling excitement around data and analytics.The most effective data communities provide access to data and support its use with training sessions and technical assistance.

Community 52

Community Organization Data Build 52

Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

As organizations strive to become more data-driven, they will need everyone to have the right data skills and the right analytics technology to help them on their journey. It will help us close the data literacy gap, reimagine an entirely new analytics experience, and set people up for success in this digital-first world.

Accessibility 98

Accessibility Gartner Data Analytics 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Internal Process. Social Listening Literacy Skills. List Five Ways You Plan To Use the Information. Who in the organization will do the listening? How will you share the information? Not everyone has to do the deep dive or heavy lifting, how will you organize your team effort? How will you share the results of what you heard?

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Twitter Nonprofit Profile Search 95

Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

International Paper Foundation. Their grantmaking aims to ensure that American public education prepares all students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions they need to fully participate in democracy and thrive in the global economy. International Paper Foundation. Funding Priority: Education. Mellon Foundation.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 7, 2020

We avoid selecting individuals whose work is internal and private to their organization. We respect that as our communities have grown, internal communities have flourished. While we do read and track all nominations, we also use internal metrics, employee nominations, and the needs of our global community to determine the new cohort.

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